DATE : 28th/29th December 2011 START : 19:02 WEATHER : 5 DEG C - 67% Humidity FINISH : 03:31 WEATHER : n DEG C - nn% Humidity As at 9:30pm I have 2 hours of data. It is suppose to be clear all night and I should finish imaging around 1pm. Well after many hours, lots of chocolate, coffee and computer games I have gathered 6 hours of data, give or take the odd not so good frame. I lost the guide star several times and right now the final few frames are from behind a tree. Right off to bed! TARGET : SH 171 - 36 x 10min SII (WO) (6 hours tonight so 9 hours in Total for SII) (COMPLETE, needs processing) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 27th/28th November 2011 START : 18:32 WEATHER : 8 DEG C - 65% Humidity FINISH : 01:02 WEATHER : -1 DEG C - 70% Humidity TARGET : SH 171 - 18 x 10min SII (WO) (3 hours tonight so 3 hours in Total for SII) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 19th/20th November 2011 START : 20:01 WEATHER : 8 DEG C - 65% Humidity FINISH : 22:32 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 3rd October 2011 START : 19:28 WEATHER : 18 DEG C - 58% Humidity FINISH : 22:nn WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 2nd October 2011 START : 18:32 WEATHER : 19 DEG C - 50% Humidity FINISH : 22:06 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : SH 171 - 12 x 10min OIII (WO) (2 hours tonight so 9 hours in Total for OIII) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 30th September 2011 START : 19:10 WEATHER : 20 DEG C - nn% Humidity FINISH : 23:59 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : SH 171 - 21 x 10min OIII (WO) (3 hours tonight so 7 hours in Total for OIII) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 29th September 2011 START : 19:10 WEATHER : 20 DEG C - nn% Humidity FINISH : 23:12 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : SH 171 - 12 x 10min OIII (WO) (2 hours tonight so 4 hours in Total for OIII) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 28th September 2011 START : 19:34 WEATHER : 22 DEG C - nn% Humidity FINISH : 23:01 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : SH 171 - 12 x 10min (600s) OIII (WO) (2 hours Total so far) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 27th September 2011 START : 19:32 WEATHER : 20 DEG C - 68% Humidity FINISH : 22:25 WEATHER : 16 DEG C - 71% Humidity I then connected the off axis guider and after working out it was not working because I had not plugged it in (I was up the house at the time) I ran down to the dome and connected. I then tried to get the stars in focus (another 25 mins) and several grub screws later. I then struggled to get the guiding working, the usual thing of click on a guide star it reports no guide star found and thus does not track. Eventually I gave up and headed in for bed. I'll try again tomorrow night. TARGET : M101 Supernova - 5 x 2min Green (WO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 24th September 2011 START : 20:24 WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 68% Humidity FINISH : 22:33 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : M101 Supernova - 5 x 2min Green (WO) SH 171 - 4 x 10mins OII (WO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 17th-18th September 2011 START : 21:57 WEATHER : 10 DEG C - 70% Humidity FINISH : 00:11 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : M101 Supernova - 5 x 2min Green (WO) SH 171 - 9 x 10mins Ha (WO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 14th-15th September 2011 START : 20:57 WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 55% Humidity FINISH : nn:nn WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : M101 Supernova - 3 x 2min Green (WO) SH 171 - 9 x 10mins Ha (WO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 12th-13th September 2011 START : 20:38 WEATHER : 15 DEG C - 52% Humidity FINISH : 21:47 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity TARGET : M101 Supernova - 3 x 2min Green (WO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 10th-11th September 2011 START : 21:15 WEATHER : 17 DEG C - 66% Humidity FINISH : 21:47 WEATHER : 17 DEG C - 66% Humidity TARGET : M101 Supernova - 3 x 2min Green (WO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 1st-2nd September 2011 START : 21:39 WEATHER : 16 DEG C - 55% Humidity FINISH : 02:51 WEATHER : 11 DEG C - 69% Humidity 16" luminance sheet with the paper on to take 3s exposures for the flats. I need to place paper on the smaller sheet. TARGET : SH 171 - Ha - 5min x 48 (WO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 31st August 1st September 2011 START : 23:00 WEATHER : 11 DEG C - 64% Humidity FINISH : 03:47 WEATHER : 09 DEG C - nn% Humidity for the BAA photometry programme this season. Next I took some images of SH 171 the so called Wolf named by us several years back in Ha. The image over the period of an hour started to drift and some of the 5 min frames had slightly elongated stars. I then setup guiding and changed the setting back to what they were before the 16" was on the mount. I also stored the screen capture of the settings to the equipment page. By 3:30am the scope had got to the meridian and I was too cold and tired to reset so I went to bed. TARGET : M101 Supernova - RGB - 4 x 5min subs for each filter (WO) Asteroid 24 Themis V Filter - 3 x 2min subs (WO) SH 171 - Ha - 5min, x 5-10ish (WO) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 27th-28th August 2011START : 21:20 WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 60% Humidity FINISH : 222:36 WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 60% Humidity the clouds rolled in I managed to take a 30second exposure through the Green V band filter. It was enough to get a magnitude reading of 12.21 through CCDSoft. Below is the 30second exposure with the supernova identified at the intersection of the 2 small white lines.  Below is the photometry report from CCDSoft  TARGET : M101 Supernova 30sec --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 21st-22nd August 2011 START : 21:27 WEATHER : 18 DEG C - 54% Humidity FINISH : nn:33 WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity weather clears for a couple of nights when I am about to go back to work. Managed to sync on an incorrect star tonight and because of the late hour I could not work out how to correct the problem so I went in frustrated. TARGET : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 20th-21st August 2011 START : 22:07 WEATHER : 15 DEG C - 59% Humidity FINISH : 00:33 WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 64% Humidity for another night as I was inspired by Tim's image. I then moved back to SH 171 and took around 20 images of which at least half are cloud covered. Not a good session from a data collection point but good practice for this seasons imaging none the less. I also think my focus was slightly out on the Ha filter. I need to correct this the next time I go out. Totally clouded out now so going in. TARGET : IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula and Barnard 168 Dark Nebula (5min subs due to cloud) L SH 171 - Ha - 5min, x 5-10ish --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 19th-20th August 2011 START : 21:07 WEATHER : 16 DEG C - 58% Humidity FINISH : 22:19 WEATHER : n DEG C - nn% Humidity Unfortunately by the time I got the focus spot on and took 1 frame the clouds had rolled in! Typical. TARGET : SH - 171 (aka the Wolf) Ha 1 x 10min --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 14th-15th August 2011 START : 23:11 WEATHER : 12.5 DEG C - 64% Humidity FINISH : 04:03 WEATHER : 9 DEG C - nn% Humidity on the ME and it does look rather funny such a small scope on a large mount. I also only need a 1Kg weight on the end of the extension bar to counterbalance the WO and the filter wheel and SBIG. This evening I have spent time getting the system working. It's amazing how quick you forget how to do things. 2 months have passed since I have used the system and many more since I have used the Williams. I had to change the FOV in The Sky 6. I have changed the camera setup in Maxim DL. I have managed to get Pinpoint working relatively easily. I have opended the .sky file without the TPoint map and saved to a new Williams file. This allows Pinpoint to work. Also I noticed by chance this evening that when saving a Mosaic in The Sky 6 that it was always offset by a few acrmins. Removing the TPoint model fxes this. I decided this evening to test the setup on the Pacman nebula with the Ha filter. This was to prove more problematic than I first thought. Firstly I could not get focus. I am out of practise manually focusing the Williams after using the lovely autofocus on the Moonlite on the 16". The adjustment within the focus range is very small. I slewed to the full Moon (I was pleased it was up for once!) and then focused using 0.001s exposures using Ha. I then slewed to a star field and refocused slighlty. I then gathered 3 test images of 10min subs through Ha. I then took some flats, this was a challenge as the wire coming out of the light sheet caused a problem as it was shorting and in fact it took me som 30mins to find the power supply. Once it worked I needed to work out the time for the exposure. I found that 2.9s gave a field value of 22,000 but 3s gave 41,000. No idea why. I took 19 frames at 2.9s and 19 at 3s. I then tested on a frame and found it embossed it! After some time and lots of slow thought given the time in the morning, I worked out the camera weight caused the draw tube to slip on the Williams!!! After another hour or so I managed to find and download the Williams Optics Magrez 72mm manual and then locate the friction grub screw on the drawtube. I then took another 20mins to find the right 2mm Allen key to adjust. Now the camera is held tight.....phew! So the next clear night I will try my first real imaging run. Below is a 10min sub with no flat or dark applied. Promising. You can compare it to the field of view and image on the Image Catalogue link.  TARGET : NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 1st June 2011 UPDATE : I have now had time to start processing M101. However it has been very challenging. I have continued to be plagued by mirror flop. All but the luminance images have been affected. There is clearly a shift in the mirror between the first image I have taken and the last image and subsequent Flat field the mirror shifts. The way in which it appears is an embossed set of doughnuts in the image. This means I cannot produce an RGB image until I perform the major overhaul on the 16". I have produced 2 rough and ready Luminance that can be seen below. I would also like to note that on taking the flats the luminance sheet I use is not big enough and this causes me problems too with cut off doughnuts.   TARGET : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 3rd-4th May 2011 START : 21:32 WEATHER : 9 DEG C - 38% Humidity FINISH : 00:23 WEATHER : 4 DEG C - 54% Humidity the LRGB set for this wonderful galaxy. I may grab some more Luminance images at some point. TARGET : M101 - Green - 13 x 5mins although I only require 50mins worth of data. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 27th-28th April 2011 START : 21:04 WEATHER : 11 DEG C - 42% Humidity FINISH : 00:14 WEATHER : 6 DEG C - 60% Humidity clear night I will gather the final 50mins in Green. Here is a sample Blue frame.  TARGET : M101 - Blue 13 x 5mins --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 25th-25th April 2011 START : 21:172 WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 42% Humidity FINISH : 23:32 WEATHER : 12 DEG C - 64% Humidity Blue and Green another night then maybe some more Ha. I did try and get Pinpoint working tonight but no joy. If I can it means I can place the telescope exactly over the object and then image the same field of view. I would need to apply the pinpoint (so tell the scope which direction to move to) using a .sky file that did not include a TPoint model else it would try to correct it. I could them load up the usual Tpoint model version of the sky file to carry on if needed. Here is a sample Red frame.  TARGET : M101 - Red 13 x 5mins --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 24th-25th April 2011 START : 23:02 WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 60% Humidity FINISH : 00:03 WEATHER : 12 DEG C - 64% Humidity disappointing) that is there is light cloud so the seeing is rubbish. Even an image in Luminance came out terrible of M101! Below is the guide star reference for me.  Here are 3 images, 1 in Red from tonight, 1 in Luminance from tonight and 1 in Luminance from the other night. You can see the huge difference.  RED 10min Luminance 10min Luminance 10MIN from the other night!FOV Position Angle 57.32 deg TARGET : M101 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 12th-12th April 2011 START : 21:11 WEATHER : 10 DEG C - 52% Humidity FINISH : 22:04 WEATHER : 10 DEG C - 54% Humidity caused partly by it's phased but also partly by it's position in relation to the object. FOV Position Angle 57.32 deg TARGET : SH 274 - Medusa Nebula --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 8th-9th April 2011 START : 20:16 WEATHER : 16 DEG C - 48% Humidity FINISH : nn:nn WEATHER : nn DEG C - nn% Humidity I have also realised that SH274 sets late evening for me so I can only take 1 hour or so of data before the seeing gets too bad due to the altitude. I have decided to move onto another object for the rest of the evening until the next imaging night. I am now imaging with LRGB M101 which is pretty much straight up for me. Below is a 10min L frame.  I now need 50min Green, 65min of Red and Blue. I was going to take them last night however I landed up having a major outage in the observatory. FOV Position Angle 57.32 deg TARGET : SH 274 - Medusa Nebula 5 x 10mins and 6 x 5mins M101 - Luminance 11 x 10mins and 10 x 5mins --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 7th-7th April 2011 START : 21:17 WEATHER : 15 DEG C - 56% Humidity FINISH : nn:nn WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 62% Humidity FOV Position Angle 57.32 deg TARGET : SH 274 - Medusa Nebula --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 6th-6th April 2011 START : 20:02 WEATHER : 15 DEG C - 44% Humidity FINISH : 23:09 WEATHER : 12 DEG C - 48% Humidity switched on in the dome which caused a light gradient on the images. I will make sure i turn the monitor off from now on. John came round and sat with me whilst I Skyped with Tim and spoke with Bob over Skype. Bob was having some trouble with his microphone which I hope he gets fixed soon. John also helped me tune the X axis for the guiding that was +/- 2 and got it to +/- 0.8. The new setting is X 3.8 and Y 5.0 FOV Position Angle 57.32 deg TARGET : SH 274 - Medusa Nebula --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 1st-2nd April 2011 START : 18:41 WEATHER : 14 DEG C - 53% Humidity FINISH : 06:14 WEATHER : 11 DEG C - 71% Humidity long focal length I will be taking 3 images at 40seconds each and stacking. This is so I do not get trailing as I do not have time to setup autoguiding for each image. I have setup a page to display each image shortly after I capture it HERE. This will be a rough align and stack of each 3 images. The running order is in the Target list below and I will mark completed for each object successfully imaged. And I bagged 75 !!!!! Now I'm tired. And so is John! No. M# NGC# Con Type ra dec B dim d Completed? Time UploadedImage?1. M77 1068 Cet 5 02 42.7 -00 01 8.9 7x6 60000 2. M74 628 Psc 5 01 36.7 +15 47 9.4 10.2x9.5 35000 3. M33 598 Tri 5 01 33.9 +30 39 5.7 73x45 3000 4. M31 224 And 5 00 42.7 +41 16 3.4 178x63 2900 5. M32 221 And 6 00 42.7 +40 52 8.1 8x6 2900 6. M110 205 And 6 00 40.4 +41 41 8.5 17x10 2900 7. M52 7654 Cas 1 23 24.2 +61 35 7.3 13.0 5.0 8. M103 581 Cas 1 01 33.2 +60 42 7.4 6.0 8.5 DONE 21:30 YES 9. M76 650 Per 3 01 42.4 +51 34 10.1 2.7x1.8 3.4 DONE 21:39 YES 10. M34 1039 Per 1 02 42.0 +42 47 5.5 35.0 1.4 DONE 21:24 YES 11. M45 - Tau 1 03 47.0 +24 07 1.6 110.0 0.38 DONE 20:48 NOT GOOD IMG 12. M79 1904 Lep 2 05 24.5 -24 33 7.7 8.7 42.1 13. M42 1976 Ori 4 05 35.4 -05 27 4.0 85x60 1.6 DONE 20:33 YES 14. M43 1982 Ori 4 05 35.6 -05 16 9.0 20x15 1.6 DONE 20:37 YES 15. M78 2068 Ori 4 05 46.7 +00 03 8.3 8x6 1.6 DONE 22:48 NOT GOOD IMG 16. M1 1952 Tau 9 05 34.5 +22 01 8.4 6x4 6.3 DONE 22:09 YES 17. M35 2168 Gem 1 06 08.9 +24 20 5.3 28.0 2.8 DONE 22:03 YES 18. M37 2099 Aur 1 05 52.4 +32 33 6.2 24.0 4.4 DONE 21:59 YES 19. M36 1960 Aur 1 05 36.1 +34 08 6.3 12.0 4.1 DONE 21:55 YES 20. M38 1912 Aur 1 05 28.4 +35 50 7.4 21.0 4.2 DONE 21:47 YES 21. M41 2287 CMa 1 06 46.0 -20 44 4.6 38.0 2.3 22. M93 2447 Pup 1 07 44.6 -23 52 6.0 22.0 3.6 23. M47 2422 Pup 1 07 36.6 -14 30 5.2 30.0 1.6 24. M46 2437 Pup 1 07 41.8 -14 49 6.0 27.0 5.4 25. M50 2323 Mon 1 07 03.2 -08 20 6.3 16.0 3 DONE 22:53 YES 26. M48 2548 Hya 1 08 13.8 -05 48 5.5 54.0 1.5 DONE 00:53 YES 27. M44 2632 Cnc 1 08 40.1 +19 59 3.7 95.0 0.577 DONE 23:02 YES 28. M67 2682 Cnc 1 08 50.4 +11 49 6.1 30.0 2.7 DONE 22:58 YES 29. M95 3351 Leo 5 10 44.0 +11 42 9.7 4.4x3.3 38000 DONE 23:40 YES 30. M96 3368 Leo 5 10 46.8 +11 49 9.2 6x4 38000 DONE 23:46 YES 31. M105 3379 Leo 6 10 47.8 +12 35 9.3 2.0 38000 DONE 23:51 YES 32. M65 3623 Leo 5 11 18.9 +13 05 9.3 8x1.5 35000 DONE 23:58 YES 33. M66 3627 Leo 5 11 20.2 +12 59 8.9 8x2.5 35000 DONE 00:06 YES 34. M81 3031 UMa 5 09 55.6 +69 04 6.9 21x10 12000 DONE 01:21 YES 35. M82 3034 UMa 7 09 55.8 +69 41 8.4 9x4 12000 DONE 01:13 YES 36. M97 3587 UMa 3 11 14.8 +55 01 9.9 3.4x3.3 2.6 DONE 01:34 YES 37. M108 3556 UMa 5 11 11.5 +55 40 10.0 8x1 45000 DONE 01:28 YES 38. M109 3992 UMa 5 11 57.6 +53 23 9.8 7x4 55000 DONE 01:42 YES 39. M40 Win4 UMa C 12 22.4 +58 05 8.4 0.8 0.51 DONE 01:48 YES 40. M106 4258 CVn 5 12 19.0 +47 18 8.4 19x8 25000 DONE 01:54 YES 41. M94 4736 CVn 5 12 50.9 +41 07 8.2 7x3 14500 DONE 01:59 YES 42. M63 5055 CVn 5 13 15.8 +42 02 8.6 10x6 37000 DONE 02:05 YES 43. M51 5194 CVn 5 13 29.9 +47 12 8.4 11x7 37000 DONE 02:14 YES 44. M101 5457 UMa 5 14 03.2 +54 21 7.9 22.0 27000 DONE 03:16 YES 45. M102? 5866 Dra 8 15 06.5 +55 46 9.9 5.2x2.3 40000 DONE 03:16 46. M53 5024 Com 2 13 12.9 +18 10 7.6 12.6 59.7 DONE 03:23 YES 47. M64 4826 Com 5 12 56.7 +21 41 8.5 9.3x5.4 19000 DONE 03:28 48. M3 5272 CVn 2 13 42.2 +28 23 6.2 16.2 33.9 DONE 03:33 YES 49. M98 4192 Com 5 12 13.8 +14 54 10.1 9.5x3.2 60000 DONE 03:38 50. M99 4254 Com 5 12 18.8 +14 25 9.9 5.4x4.8 60000 DONE 03:41 51. M100 4321 Com 5 12 22.9 +15 49 9.3 7x6 60000 DONE 03:45 52. M85 4382 Com 8 12 25.4 +18 11 9.1 7.1x5.2 60000 DONE 03:48 53. M84 4374 Vir 8 12 25.1 +12 53 9.1 5.0 60000 DONE 02:29 YES 54. M86 4406 Vir 8 12 26.2 +12 57 8.9 7.5x5.5 60000 DONE 02:33 55. M87 4486 Vir 6 12 30.8 +12 24 8.6 7.0 60000 DONE 02:43 56. M89 4552 Vir 6 12 35.7 +12 33 9.8 4.0 60000 DONE 02:46 57. M90 4569 Vir 5 12 36.8 +13 10 9.5 9.5x4.5 60000 DONE 02:51 58. M88 4501 Com 5 12 32.0 +14 25 9.6 7x4 60000 DONE 02:55 59. M91 4548 Com 5 12 35.4 +14 30 10.2 5.4x4.4 60000 DONE 02:59 YES 60. M58 4579 Vir 5 12 37.7 +11 49 9.7 5.5x4.5 60000 DONE 03:03 YES 61. M59 4621 Vir 6 12 42.0 +11 39 9.6 5x3.5 60000 DONE 03:06 62. M60 4649 Vir 6 12 43.7 +11 33 8.8 7x6 60000 DONE 03:11 63. M49 4472 Vir 6 12 29.8 +08 00 8.4 9x7.5 60000 DONE 02:24 YES 64. M61 4303 Vir 5 12 21.9 +04 28 9.7 6x5.5 60000 DONE 00:37 YES 65. M104 4594 Vir 5 12 40.0 -11 37 8.0 9x4 50000 DONE 00:31 YES 66. M68 4590 Hya 2 12 39.5 -26 45 7.8 12.0 33.3 DONE 00:27 YES 67. M83 5236 Hya 5 13 37.0 -29 52 7.6 11x10 15000 68. M5 5904 Ser 2 15 18.6 +02 05 5.6 17.4 24.5 DONE 05:09 69. M13 6205 Her 2 16 41.7 +36 28 5.8 16.6 25.1 70. M92 6341 Her 2 17 17.1 +43 08 6.4 11.2 26.7 71. M57 6720 Lyr 3 18 53.6 +33 02 8.8 1.4x1.0 2.3 DONE 05:35 72. M56 6779 Lyr 2 19 16.6 +30 11 8.3 7.1 32.9 DONE 05:29 73. M29 6913 Cyg 1 20 23.9 +38 32 7.1 7.0 4.0 DONE 05:25 74. M39 7092 Cyg 1 21 32.2 +48 26 4.6 32.0 0.825 DONE 05:19 75. M27 6853 Vul 3 19 59.6 +22 43 7.4 8.0x5.7 1.25 76. M71 6838 Sge 2 19 53.8 +18 47 8.2 7.2 12.7 77. M107 6171 Oph 2 16 32.5 -13 03 7.9 10.0 20.9 DONE 04:09 NOT GOOD IMG 78. M12 6218 Oph 2 16 47.2 -01 57 6.7 14.5 16.0 DONE 05:54 79. M10 6254 Oph 2 16 57.1 -04 06 6.6 15.1 14.4 DONE 05:52 M14 = 05:49 81. M9 6333 Oph 2 17 19.2 -18 31 7.7 9.3 26.7 DONE 04:15 NOT GOOD IMG 82. M4 6121 Sco 2 16 23.6 -26 32 5.6 26.3 7.2 DONE 03:54 NOT GOOD IMG 83. M80 6093 Sco 2 16 17.0 -22 59 7.3 8.9 32.6 DONE 04:06 NOT GOOD IMG 84. M19 6273 Oph 2 17 02.6 -26 16 6.8 13.5 28.4 DONE 04:02 NOT GOOD IMG 85. M62 6266 Oph 2 17 01.2 -30 07 6.5 14.1 22.5 DONE 03:58 NOT GOOD IMG 86. M6 6405 Sco 1 17 40.1 -32 13 5.3 25.0 2 87. M7 6475 Sco 1 17 53.9 -34 49 4.1 80.0 0.8 88. M11 6705 Sct 1 18 51.1 -06 16 6.3 14.0 6 DONE 05:44 89. M26 6694 Sct 1 18 45.2 -09 24 8.0 15.0 5 DONE 05:41 90. M16 6611 Ser 1 18 18.8 -13 47 6.4 7.0 7 DONE 04:57 91. M17 6618 Sgr 4 18 20.8 -16 11 7.0 11.0 5 DONE 04:53 YES 92. M18 6613 Sgr 1 18 19.9 -17 08 7.5 9.0 4.9 DONE 04:48 93. M24 >6603 Sgr B 18 16.9 -18 29 4.6 90 10 94. M25 I4725 Sgr 1 18 31.6 -19 15 6.5 40.0 2 DONE 04:45 95. M23 6494 Sgr 1 17 56.8 -19 01 6.9 27.0 2.15 DONE 04:17 NGI 96. M21 6531 Sgr 1 18 04.6 -22 30 6.5 13.0 4.25 DONE 04:21 NGI 97. M20 6514 Sgr 4 18 02.6 -23 02 9.0 28.0 5.2 DONE 04:19 YES 98. M8 6523 Sgr 4 18 03.8 -24 23 6.0 90x40 5.2 DONE 04:26 NGI 99. M28 6626 Sgr 2 18 24.5 -24 52 6.8 11.2 18.6 100. M22 6656 Sgr 2 18 36.4 -23 54 5.1 24.0 10.4 101. M69 6637 Sgr 2 18 31.4 -32 21 7.6 7.1 28.0 102. M70 6681 Sgr 2 18 43.2 -32 18 7.9 7.8 29.4 103. M54 6715 Sgr 2 18 55.1 -30 29 7.6 9.1 88.7 104. M55 6809 Sgr 2 19 40.0 -30 58 6.3 19.0 17.6 105. M75 6864 Sgr 2 20 06.1 -21 55 8.5 6.0 61.3 106. M15 7078 Peg 2 21 30.0 +12 10 6.2 12.3 33.6 107. M2 7089 Aqr 2 21 33.5 -00 49 6.5 12.9 37.9 108. M72 6981 Aqr 2 20 53.5 -12 32 9.3 5.9 55.4 109. M73 6994 Aqr A 20 58.9 -12 38 9.0 2.8 2.0 110. M30 7099 Cap 2 21 40.4 -23 11 7.2 11.0 26.1 Key:
DATE : 28th-28th March 2011 START : 20:16 WEATHER : 4 DEG C - 54% Humidity FINISH : 21:52 WEATHER : 1 DEG C - 69% Humidity working with the Loadstar. When I click on the star it does not appear. To select it I must move around 10 pixel top left of the star so to 10 o'clock of the star. Not sure why this happens even after I have updated the software. Horse Head --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 19th-20th March 2011 START : 21:36 WEATHER : 4 DEG C - 54% Humidity FINISH : 00:05 WEATHER : 1 DEG C - 69% Humidity 1) Changed back to SBIG internal chip - No change error still IMAGE CALLIBRATION FAILED. THE BRIGHTEST PIXEL IS LESS THAN 64 PIXELS FROM EDGE 2) Changed TRACK BOX SIZE from 128 x 128 or 64 x64 to either 32 x 32 or 16x16. - THE BRIGHTEST PIXEL error goes away. Still have CALLIBRATION FAILED message 3) Changed Camera Binning on Guide Tab then Settings button from 2 to 3. The Image Callibration error has gone! This means both errors can now be accounted for especially as I took the Guider Darks and Bias at 3 x Binning. I will now try the new camera. New camera still has the Image callibration error. 1) Changed to Camera 2 for on the EXPOSE tab when taking the Guider Darks and Bias frames! This was the problem. Now the calibration error goes away. Still had the problem when I did try to track that the star was not apparent and the error was FADED with a large error ion X and Y. 1) Changed the TRACK BOX SIZE back to 64 x64. It worked!!!!!! Took 4 successful images of the Eskimo PLN before the clouds rolled in. Below is a very rough processed image of 20mins. TARGET : Eskimo - 4 x 5min in Ha  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 18th-19th March 2011 START : 20:32 WEATHER : 0 DEG C - 62% Humidity FINISH : 00:26 WEATHER : 0 DEG C - 63% Humidity TARGET : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 10th-11th March 2011 START : 21:26 WEATHER : 6 DEG C - 62% Humidity FINISH : 00:03 WEATHER : 6 DEG C - 66% Humidity the next two were too low down to image at 10pm. At 11:20pm i cam back out and imaged 361. Although still relatively low it was observable. 528 was still too faint and I am not convinced stacking will help. I tried to get a guide star however though the V filter the star I had disappeared. Details for TheSky6 :- Rotate Tool - 302.45 OR 122.47 TARGET : (62) Erato - (283) Emma - (334) Chicago - (361) Bononia - DONE (518) Halawe - (632) Pyrrha - DONE (830) Petropolitana - DONE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 7th-8th March 2011 START : 21:22 WEATHER : 2 DEG C - 52% Humidity FINISH : 22:34 WEATHER : 0.5 DEG C - 56% Humidity Details for TheSky6 :- Rotate Tool - 302.45 OR 122.47 TARGET : (62) Erato - DONE (283) Emma - DONE (334) Chicago - DONE (361) Bononia - (518) Halawe - (632) Pyrrha - (830) Petropolitana - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 2nd-3rd March 2011 START : 21:19 WEATHER : 1 DEG C - 65% Humidity FINISH : 00:12 WEATHER : -0.5 DEG C - 71% Humidity just misses me? Anyway, it's pretty cold (it is actually freezing my pants off as I type) and I have captured 5 of the 7 asteroids. The other 2 are too low (around altitude 16) to really make any sensible measurements and especially given the seeing is fairly rubbish this evening. Details for TheSky6 :- Rotate Tool - 302.45 OR 122.47 TARGET : (62) Erato - DONE (283) Emma - DONE (334) Chicago - DONE (361) Bononia - TOO LOW (518) Halawe - TOO LOW (632) Pyrrha - DONE (830) Petropolitana - DONE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 26th-27th February 2011 START : 21:45 WEATHER : 4 DEG C - 65% Humidity FINISH : 02:25 WEATHER : 3 DEG C - 67% Humidity be a refreshing change to go down the observatory and capture some more data points for Richard Miles. It went really well. John M came round after the first hour and stayed until just gone 1pm. The skies were crystal clear and I managed to bag ALL of the asteroids. It took an hour for me to setup as I tested out the StarlightXpress camera first. This worked ok, however it looked like it was interlaced at 1 x binning. Not sure why so I will need to look into it. Once my birthday comes I will have the offaxis guider assembly that I purchased at Astrofest. I'm really looking forwards to that as I will be able to image in narrow band through the 16" for the first time! Details for TheSky6 :- Rotate Tool - 302.45 OR 122.47 TARGET : (62) Erato - DONE (283) Emma - DONE (334) Chicago - DONE (361) Bononia - DONE (518) Halawe - DONE (632) Pyrrha - DONE (830) Petropolitana - DONE --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 20th-21st January 2011 START : 03:59 WEATHER : -1 DEG C - 70% Humidity FINISH : 05:22 WEATHER : -1 DEG C - 75% Humidity Details for TheSky6 :- FOV Position Angle - 263.25 Rotate Tool - 96.75 TARGET : (62) Erato - too low (283) Emma - too low (334) Chicago - too low (361) Bononia - DONE @ 4:40am (518) Halawe - too faint mag 16.5 no guide star (632) Pyrrha - too faint mag 16.1 no guide star (830) Petropolitana - not viewed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DATE : 18th-19h January 2011 START : 19:54 WEATHER : 2 DEG C - 65% Humidity FINISH : 00:28 WEATHER : 0.5 DEG C - 70% Humidity UPDATE : Went out again tonight to capture some more data for the BAA project NeilBone2/ Below is data relevant to TheSky6. FOV Position Angle - 263.25 Rotate Tool - 96.75 TARGET : (62) Erato - DONE @ 9:05pm (283) Emma - DONE @ 9:10pm (334) Chicago - DONE @ 9:15pm (361) Bononia - not visible (518) Halawe - not visible (632) Pyrrha - not visible (830) Petropolitana - DONE @ 11pm |
